Tag - Linux Customization

Linux is many things but being the most user-friendly operating system is not one of them. I’ve often called out Windows for behaving like an OS from the 90s what with the way apps are installed or uninstalled the registry...

If you’ve never heard of display managers, a display manager is responsible for starting the display server and loading the Linux desktop after you type in your username and password. Also referred to as a “login manager”...

GRUB or Grand Unified Bootloader is a bootloader package developed to allow users to select from two or more operating systems installed on a single disk. GRUB is what makes dual booting a PC with Windows and a Linux distribution...

If you’re using any of the latest versions of Ubuntu, you’re most probably familiar with the new Ubuntu GNOME desktop. The popular Linux distro now has had the GNOME desktop as default since three iterations. By...

If you’re not a Mozilla Firefox user, you’re not a minority. It has been quite some time since any browser has really excited me enough to switch from Chrome. Considering the market share of all the desktop browsers...

Budgie is a homegrown desktop environment of the Solus project, based on GNOME 3. Due to its growing popularity in the Linux community, it even received an official Ubuntu favor that ships with Budgie desktop pre-installed. The...

If you’re a Linux newbie you’re probably wondering what is GRUB? GRUB (GRUB2, more specifically) is the bootloader used by most Linux distros. Unlike the Windows bootloader that only detects Windows installations...

In a nutshell, Conky is a graphical system monitor tool for Linux and BSD systems. From how it appears anywhere on the desktop according to the will and whim of the user, it is only logical to compare it to widgets from Android...